alight 的定义
a·light·ed or a·lit, a·light·ing.
- to dismount from a horse, descend from a vehicle, etc.
- to settle or stay after descending: The bird alighted on the tree.
- to encounter or notice something accidentally.
alight 近义词
land
更多alight例句
- I’ll fantasize about setting colonial summerhouses alight using dendrites & neurons.
- Titmice have been spotted dive-bombing cats, alighting on dozing predators’ backs and plucking strands of hair from people’s heads.
- Every few days, he would commute down the highway from his sleepy coastal town of Castelldefels, set Europe’s biggest stadium alight, then drive home to his wife and three sons.
- Fall visitors to South Walton often land another treat, too, as swarms of Monarch butterflies alight in parks and beachside neighborhoods starting in late September.
- As they alight briefly, the eyes acquire the image of a group of letters roughly equal to one word and then immediately jump farther along, pausing to sample another word or two.
- The grapevine and the international media were alight with the buzz of the student killed by the police during the demonstration.
- Who was that lithe, bendable gymnast setting alight the Olympic flame?
- All the men were shot, their bodies set alight—often before they expired.
- In the last five years, a dozen camps have been set alight across the country.
- The words at the bottom summarized what kept that hope alight.
- “With pleasure, my dear fellow,” said the major puffing vigorously for a few moments to get his pipe well alight.
- The sky was alight from zenith to horizon, the Nile aflame with sunrise, by the time the letter was written.
- His eyes alight with hope, he ran out, leaving the door open so that his conversation was again audible to the visitor.
- Miss Jewett was speaking in her brisk, working voice; the troubled face had become alight.
- In addition to their huts of leaves, they had erected a small temple, where they invited us to alight.